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Address Service Requested From: FIRST CLASS NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY Jacksonville, Illinois 62650-2590 MacMurray College English Department Allan Metcalf, Executive Secretary AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY NADS 32.2 Vol. 32, No. 2 May 2000 2 • Regional Meetings, Fall 2000 3 • Last Call for 2001 Annual Meeting 3 • ADS at MLA Too 3 • Nominations Invited 4 • Briefing in Washington 5•In Memory of Fred Cassidy 12 • Yes, A Few T-Shirts Left 13 • DSNA Deadline Announced 13 • NWAV To Meet in October 14 • What We Learned at ACLS 15 • New Books by ADS Members 16 • DARE Queries No. 48 NADS is sent in January, May and September to all ADS members. Send news and queries to editor and executive secretary Allan Metcalf, English De- partment, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois 62650, phone (217) 479-7117 or (217) 243-3403, e- mail [email protected]. Annual membership is $35, students $20; plus $5 outside the United States. See Page 3 for membership address. ADS Web site (Grant Barrett, webmaster): http://www.americandialect.org/ ADS-L discussion list: To join, send to [email protected] the message: Sub ADS-L Your Name ADS REGIONAL MEETINGS Rocky Mountain $20 students (no papers). Membership in MMLA is In association with RMMLA, Oct. 12-14; Boise, $25 full and associate professors, $20 other faculty, Idaho, Grove Hotel. $15 students. Write MMLA, 302 English-Philoso- Chair: Glenn A. Martinez, Kenyon College. phy Bldg., U. of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1408; 1. “A Texas Tug of Words: Archaisms and Angli- phone (319) 335-0331; [email protected]; cisms in 19th Century South Texas Spanish.” Glenn www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/. Martinez, Kenyon Coll. Future meeting: 2001 Nov. 1–3 Cleveland, 2. “Tonemes in Norwegian-American Dialects.” Sheraton City Centre Hotel. Mary Morzinski, U. of Wisconsin-La Crosse. South Central 3. “I Said ‘They Was Gormed Fool’: Angela In association with SCMLA, Nov. 9-11; San An- Thirkell’s Reactionist Politics.” Helen Taylor, Loui- tonio, Camberley Gunter Hotel. siana State U.–Shreveport. Chair: Lori Boykin, West Texas A&M Univ. ADS Regional Secretary 2000-2001: Mary E. 1. “French and English Dialects as Markers of Morzinski, Dept. of English, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Social and Economic Solidarity and Status in Kate Crosse, La Crosse WI 54601; phone (609) 785-8300, Chopin’s ‘At Fault.’” David J. Caudle, U. of North fax (608) 785-8301; [email protected]. Texas. Membership in RMMLA is $30 individual, $20 2. “Phonological and Lexical Choices in student. Write RMMLA, Washington State Univ., Marthaville, Louisiana, Natives.” Kristoffer Hailey, P.O. Box 642610, Pullman WA 99164-2610; Northwestern State U. [email protected]; http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ 3. “Some Sources of Nonstandard English.” Jan rmmla/; phone (509) 335-4198, fax (509) 335-6635 Tillery and Guy Bailey, U. of Texas, San Antonio. ext. 54198. ADS Regional Secretary 1999-2000: Charles B. Future meeting: 2001 Oct. 11–13 Vancouver, Martin, Dept. of English, Univ. of North Texas, Sheraton Wall Centre. P.O. Box 13827, Denton TX 76203-3827; phone Midwest (817) 565-2149, [email protected]. In association with MMLA, Nov. 2-4; Kansas Membership in SCMLA is $30 full professors, City, Missouri, Hyatt Regency Crown Center. $25 associate and assistant professors, $20 instruc- Organizer: Beth Lee Simon, Indiana U.–Purdue tors and students. Write SCMLA Membership Secre- U. Fort Wayne. tary, Texas A&M Univ., Dept. of English, College 1. “The Non-rhotic Film Pronunciation of Fred Station TX 77843-4227; phone (979) 845-7041; fax Astaire and Ginger Rogers, or Why He Gives Her (979) 862-2292; www-english.tamu.edu/scmla/; Class and She Gives Him Sex.” Nancy C. Elliott, [email protected]. Southern Oregon U. Future Meeting: 2001 Nov. 1–3 Tulsa, Down- 2. “‘Too good for me, but I’ll drink it anyway’: town Doubletree Hotel. Discourse Strategies of Appalachian Dialect Re- South Atlantic vealed in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain.” In association with SAMLA, Nov. 10-12; Bir- Stephanie J. Hysmith, Ohio U. mingham, AL, Sheraton Civic Center. 3. “Some Evidence of Concentration in the Rural The Language of Cross-Cultural Communication. Midland Dialect in Illinois.” Timothy Frazer, West- Chair: Margaret Lee, Dept. of English, Hampton ern Illinois U. Univ., Hampton VA 23668; [email protected]. Discussant: Thomas Murray, Kansas State Uni- 1. “‘They Were Stupid’: HUD’s Failed Creole versity. Brochure Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities” (20 ADS Regional Secretary 1999–2000: Beth Lee min.). Wayne Glowka and Elijah Scott, Georgia Simon, Dept. of English and Linguistics, IPFW, Fort College & State U. Wayne IN 46805-1499; [email protected]. 2. “‘De Ole Time Talk We Still de Talkum Here’: Registration is $40 regular (includes 18 papers), (Please turn to Page 13) 2 / NADS 32.2 May 2000 ADS ANNUAL MEETING August 14: Abstracts Due for Annual Meeting Aug.14 is the deadline for proposals for the ADS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. January 4–7, 2001. Send them to Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf, preferably by e-mail: [email protected]. We’re flexible about length and format. If your proposal is accepted, you’ll be asked for an abstract of no more than 200 words for the LSA program. Include a list of the AV equipment you will need for your presentation. And if your abstract contains phonetic/phonemic transcription, please include a translation, since many such symbols will be lost in the numerous systems involved in handing your abstract around (e.g., write “angma,” “wedge,” “mid-front lax,” and so on). We will do our very best to produce correct symbols in the both the LSA and NADS programs. All proposals will be reviewed by Dennis Preston, our Vice President and program chair. If you have an idea for a special session or something out of the ordinary, don’t wait till the deadline to get in touch with him: [email protected]. Hotel: As before, we will be guests of the Linguistic Society of America, expected to pay their registration but also entitled to their special hotel rates: $99 single or double at the Grand Hyatt Washington (1000 H Street NW, Washington Center, Washington, DC 20001; (202) 582-1234, fax (202) 637-4781). Presidential Honors Committee Invites Nominations Propose a student for a four-year complimentary For terms of office starting in 2001, the ADS Presidential Honorary Membership with a letter of Nominating Committee will be proposing candidates recommendation to ADS President Ronald Butters, for vice president (succeeding to the presidency two English Dept., Duke Univ., Box 90018, Durham NC years later), Executive Council member, and Nomi- 27708-0018, [email protected]. nating Committee member at large. Suggestions are ADS at MLA welcome, either of others or of your own willingness to serve. “Teaching American English” is the theme for Send your ideas to the committee chair, past ADS two ADS two sessions at the Modern Language As- President Lawrence M. Davis, Dept. of English, sociation meeting in Washington, D.C. December Wichita State Univ., Wichita KS 67260-0014, 27–30. Organizer and chair: Michael Adams, [email protected]. Or communicate with Albright College. First session: the other members of the committee: Past President 1. “Goals and Teaching English Language Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State U., or elected Classes.” Sonja L. Lanehart, U. of Georgia. member Natalie Maynor, Mississippi State U. 2. “The Politics of Teaching Standard English.” Anne Curzan, U. of Washington. Membership & Dues 3. “Teaching American English on the Web.” Membership in the American Dialect Soci- William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., U. of Georgia. ety brings you our journal American Speech Second session: with its monograph supplement Publication of 1. “Teaching American English in France.” Lois the American Dialect Society, not to mention Nathan, U. du Havre. this newsletter three times a year. Dues for 2. “Teaching ‘Bad’ American English: Profanity 2000 are $35, students $20, plus $5 extra for and Other ‘Bad’ Words in the Liberal Arts Setting.” members outside the United States. Life Mem- Michael Adams, Albright College. bership is available for $700. Address: 3. “Two Countries ‘Divided by a Common Lan- Cindy Foltz, Journals Fulfillment, Duke guage’: British and American English in the Class- University Press, Box 90660, Durham, NC room.” Leonard R.N. Ashley, CUNY–Brooklyn 27708-0660; phone 1-888-387-5765 or 919- College. 687-3613; fax 1-919-688-2615; All who attend must register for the MLA meet- [email protected]. ing. See www.mla.org. NADS 32.2 May 2000 / 3 CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Washington Listens to Linguists By Kirk Hazen and Ron Butters On May 8, 2000, at the Longworth House Office Although some original research results were pre- Building in Washington, DC, a panel of experts on sented by panelists, there was little new or surprising language and learning conducted a congressional for audience members trained as anthropologists, lin- briefing before a full-house audience of some 70-80 guists, and teachers of second languages. Rather, the scholars and representatives from several congres- purpose was to carry the message to Congress and sional offices, the NSF, NEH, NIH, and other lan- government agencies in discourse that for the most guage-policy agencies. This seminar was sponsored part avoided the cross-purposed rhetoric of recent by the Consortium of Social Science Associations, educational controversies (e.g., the Ann Arbor deci- the Linguistic Society of America, and the Center for sion, the Ebonics flap, the English-only debate): sec- Applied Linguistics, with a number of cosponsors ond-language acquisition is vital for all American including the American Anthropological Associa- children, speakers of English and non-speakers alike; tion, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Lan- monolingual (and monodialectal) English education guages, and our own American Dialect Society defies both scientific theory and common sense; (whose immediate past president, Walt Wolfram, reading education must build on what the student originated the idea for the meeting).